In his honor, a photo of Kerouac that Allen Ginsberg shot in the East Village outside Tompkins Square Park...
The caption reads:
Jack Kerouac wandering along East 7th street after visiting Burroughs at our pad, passing statue of Congressman Samuel "Sunset" Cox, "The Letter – Carrier's Friend" in Tompkins Square toward corner of Avenue A, Lower East Side; he's making a Dostoyevsky mad-face or Russian basso be-bop Om, first walking around the neighborhood, then involved with The Subterraneans, pencils & notebook in wool shirt-pockets, Fall 1953, Manhattan.
You can find other photos online that Ginsberg took of Kerouac and Williams Burroughs in the East Village ... like this one from Ginsberg's apartment at 206 E. Seventh St.
Reminded me to watch this video again. Ginsberg, Kerouac, babies, et al. at the Harmony Bar, corner 9th and 3rd, 1959, before NYU and the giant apartment building. There's a shot where you see steel going up for the old Cooper Union building (the one that just came down for 51 Astor). And it starts with them walking down 9th Street in front of Pageant Books (now Central Bar), as near as I can tell.
ReplyDeleteI was worried he was in a mid-woo shout.
ReplyDeleteThanks MUCH EVG and Pinhead....VERY nice vid....
ReplyDelete....kids will be kids, eh? :+)